The Stability and Growth Pact is being updated, if that is the correct word for what it is being done to it. With the Pact as designed during the late 1990’s, EU member countries agreed that in...

A circular issued by the Planning Authority (PA) states that “when assessing and determining development application in all of Gozo’s urban areas, PA requires the use of unpainted and...

The Scottish Health secretary, the equivalent of our Minister of Health, has resigned. He racked up an £11,000 bill on his work table.  Or rather, his two sons did. While on a family...

Some seek to deceive themselves and others when they proclaim their conviction that there is no conflict between the economy and the environment. The current state of affairs in all areas of...

The initial popularity associated with drones was related to their use as toys. Business use has largely been a later development as the technology has improved to a point where commercial...

In another section of the press you can read a wonderful series of articles where they fact-check stories. Usually, but not necessarily always, they investigate matters of national importance and...

The consensus generating machine is working full tilt now as we head into the European Parliament election in a few weeks’ time. Last week we had the European Commission’s Winter...

I am absolutely passionate about the so many positive things that the Maltese festa brings about in our communities.  Let us put aside for one minute the actual cultural input which it injects...

I always felt great sympathy towards Russia as a country, as a culture and towards its citizens as a people, even in Soviet times. I never could understand the reluctance of Western Europeans to...

In this country we have had direct experience of working with NATO. Most Maltese do not remember how this went. For apart from the very questionable Maltese  ongoing participation in the NATO...